Marianne's homecoming

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Movie
Original title Marianne's homecoming
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2003
length 45 minutes
Rod
Director Stefan Röttger , Gert Monheim
production WDR - West German Broadcasting
music Joachim Dürbeck

Marianne's Homecoming or Marianne's Homecoming - The Jew, the Official and the Village is a German documentary film by WDR authors Stefan Röttger and Gert Monheim . The film describes in particular the Shoah , the " Aryanization " and the German policy of reparation for the lives of the Jewish residents of Hemmerden Ilse Rübsteck , Karl Winter and Marianne Stern (née Winter) and the tax officer Josef Krüppel and other residents of the village of Hemmerden in the Third Reich and in the post-war period.

The film was shown on April 2, 2004 at Phoenix and rerun on April 7, 2004. Furthermore, this film was repeated on April 19, 2004 on WDR and on April 21. On February 2, 2005 in the Rheinisches LandesMuseum Bonn, whereby the cultural department had inquiries with the WDR about the acquisition of the film. On September 8, 2005, the film was shown in the Historisches Museum in Berlin as part of the exhibition "Legalized Robbery. Germany and the Expropriation of Jews in Europe" . On February 17, 2006, the film was shown in the Cologne VHS am Neumarkt as part of an exhibition "Aryanization" in Cologne - "Germans recycle their Jewish neighbors" .

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Use Rübsteck

Ilse Rübsteck came from Grevenbroich and was also deported to the Riga ghetto , where she was employed as a forced laborer . She later worked in a sub-camp for the Wehrmacht. Rübsteck reports: "[...] Clothes were collected from the dead and we got them afterwards to put on." Rübsteck also tells how she was driven into the forest by the SS, where she was repeatedly kneeled and believed let her be shot. So she says: "[...] kneel down, then we thought there was going to be shooting ... then it was again: get up, go on [...] kneel down, get up and go on. They did that to us several times ” .

Josef Krüppel

Josef Krüppel was the firstborn of identical twins . While his twin brother Franz Krüppel became a dental technician after his service in World War I , Josef worked at the tax office in Grevenbroich . Josef Krüppel becomes chief inspector at the tax office. He has to take a new oath of office and provide evidence of Aryan status. When he was able to prove his Catholic ancestors by 1744, he was allowed to continue working in the tax office. Together with his brother he was in his spare time in Grevenbroicher shooting club vitality . At the wedding of his twin brother Franz he was the best man and later lived with his brother's family. Krüppel later rises to the position of deputy boss in the tax office. When Josef received a letter from the Oberfinanzdirektion Düsseldorf in August 1939 , in which he was asked to become a party member of the NSDAP , Josef joined the party. In 1941 Josef received a letter from Berlin with the title Deportation (Expropriation) of Jews . After the local Jewish population had been deported, the tax officer sold the household goods in a public auction . The civil servant receives 4,048.89 Reichsmarks for the Winter family's household effects and transfers this amount to the treasury . The tax officer has the house transferred to the tax office and, as a property manager, collects the rent for the tax office. In the post-war period, Josef Krüppel was commissioned to compensate the dispossessed Jewish families. Since Krüppel is still the caretaker of the house, he has to come to the house of the Winter family to examine damage to the house. A dispute ensues with Marianne Stern, the only survivor of the Jewish Winter family. So one day Marianne sees the officer park a bicycle by the house. Then she says to him: “[...] You don't know where the bicycles have gone? You are riding my brother-in-law's bike. Listen, it's time you brought the bike back. ” The tax officer replies: “ [...] I'm not obliged to do that. ” . Marianne replied: "[...] Legally not, but morally already [...] They fear my nose that I tell everyone that it and the officer is still moving from the tax office Grevenbroich a bicycle Jews!" . Josef then handed the bike to Marianne. In 1955, Krüppel took early retirement and died in 1962 as a result of a stroke.

Marianne Stern (born Winter)

Marianne was born on September 16, 1919 as the second daughter of the Jewish couple Karl and Rosalie Winter in Hemmerden.

In 1941 Marianne was brought to the Riga ghetto with her parents and sister Hertha and her husband Richard Schmitz . Marianne stayed there with the whole family until November 1943. So it says: “[...] The parents were still there, [...] sister and brother-in-law [...] and the parents then left on 28. June 1944 " . In 1944 Marianne and her sister were separated from the rest of the family and sent on a death march , where their sister died on February 20, 1945 near Danzig. However, Marianne could be freed. As the only Jewish survivor of the Shoah in Hemmerden, she returned to her village and had to experience many disputes there. Her parents' house was rented out, where Marianne has a dispute with the tenants.

Marianne Stern (née Winter) reports how she wanted to offer the tenants upstairs a lease: “[...] A family lived upstairs. I'm up, I said, listen, if you want to move out, you can move out, but if you want to stay home? [...] " . However, the tenants do not accept the offer of a new lease and only answer: "[...] We had hoped that none of them would come back, that's why we moved in here [...]" . The tenants then said to each other: "[...] If she didn't die in the concentration camp, she'll die here, then we'll throw her down the stairs."

So it says posthumously in the documentary about Marianne: “[...] she managed to survive through her strong character and through her strong character she also managed to enforce her rights. And for everything that happened to her injustice, she tried to get right by all means [...] ” .

Other

Finally, there is a dispute in court. There Marianne has to fight for recognition as a racially persecuted person. There the chairman said: “[...] Yes, Ms. and Mr. Stern, that you were in Riga, we have to believe you. But who tells us that they went to the ghetto and later to the concentration camp? We don't have any documents about this and that is why we cannot recognize them ” . Mr. Stern then became “as white as the wall” . Thereupon Marianne said: “I jumped up, went to the board table and said: Mr. Baus, may I tell you where we were? And yelled through the whole hall: Our relatives all had fatal accidents while skiing. "

When one of Marianne's neighbors is dying, he calls her and tells her how he personally supervised the murder of her parents in Riga. It says: “[...] There was a neighbor who was terminally ill and then [...] went to him. There she became aware that this neighbor had then participated in the atrocities in Riga [...] Then he also knew an answer to the question [...]: Where have my parents gone. He was then able to answer them in detail [...] he did not forgive him where she found out how her parents died and that in the immediate vicinity ” . Until then, Marianne still had the hope that her parents would still be alive. It was the same neighbor across from the Winter family who had written down who went to the Jewish clothing store. So it is said of this neighbor: “[...] People were also careful who bought from Jews. That was a neighbor across the street from Winters and he wrote down who went in and out of Winters, who bought there ” .

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  2. ↑ http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/legalisiert-raub/begleit.html
  3. ↑ http://www.fritz-bauer-institut.de/kalender/kalender_2_2005.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.jungegew.de/publik/infomail/in060205.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.jungegew.de